Borrowing a Parrot AR Drone

For the first time in the history of the IMAV events, teams can apply for borrowing a MAV platform for use in the competitions. The IMAV 2011 Summer edition is sponsored by Parrot, the producer of the Parrot AR Drones. Parrot has made it possible for the IMAV organization to lend drones to teams that wish to focus on the artificial intelligence / software part of the competitions.
 

The AR drone is a quad rotor with multiple sensors onboard, including:

* Cameras looking to the front and bottom
* Ultrasound altimeter
* 3 axis accelerometer
* 2 axis gyrometer
* 1 axis yaw precision gyrometer

Teams can adapt the open source code of the Parrot AR drone to participate in the competitions (see http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa). It is required that the code developed by the team for the IMAV competitions will be open source as well.

The procedure for borrowing a Parrot AR Drone:

1. Write a short plan for the competition(s) in which your team wants to participate. Send it to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The plan should contain: the competition(s) you are interested in joining, the general approach you want to follow, the algorithms you want to use both for (vision) processing and for state estimation (if applicable) and control, and a coarse planning. The plan should not take more than a few pages (2 or so).
2. The IMAV 2011 organization evaluates the incoming proposals and notifies the team whether it can borrow a Parrot AR Drone.
3. Register the team: www.imav2011.org/registrations/competition-registration

4. Register the team members individually: www.imav2011.org/registrations/individual-registration
5. After payment of two or more team members for the full conference, and acceptance of the conditions for borrowing the platform, the Parrot AR Drone will be sent. As a preliminary indication for the conference registration costs, a student pays only 150 Euro for the entire conference / competition, including conference dinner ticket.

Please note that the NUMBER OF DRONES IS LIMITED, and we will assign them on a first-come first-serve basis, if the quality of the proposals is sufficiently high.